The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 3

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 3

To say that these criticisms of Orpheus C. Kerr are universally known, admired, and laughed at, would be superfluous. Their inimitable wit and sarcasm have made the author famous, and since his letter shave been published in book form their circulation has been enormous. Copies will be sent by mail free, on receipt of price, $1.50 Even M. Louvois, the prime-minister, taxed Sulli with his impudence, which, he said, by no means became a man who had no other recommendation but that of making people laugh. "Why, what the dl!" cried Sulli; "you would do as much, if you were able!" ... and Sulli got the appointment. The more I see of our Honest Abe, my boy,the more closely I analyze the occasional acts by which he individualizes himself as a unit distinct from the decimals of his cabinet,the deeper grows my faith in his sterling wisdom. Standing a head and shoulders above the other men in power, he is the object at which the capricious lightnings of the storm first strike; and were he a man of wax, instead of the grand old rock he is, there would be nothing left of him but a shapeless and inert mass of pliable material by this time. There are deep traces of the storm upon his countenance, my boy; but they are the sculpture of the tempest on a natural block of granite, graduating the features of young simplicity into the sterner lineaments of the mature sublime, and shaping one of those strong and earnest faces which God sets, as indelible seals, upon the ages marked for immortality. Abused and misrepresented by his political foes, alternately cajoled and reproached by his other foes,his political friends,he still pursues the honest tenor of the obvious Right, and smiles at calumny. His good-nature, my boy, is a lamp that never goes out, but burns, with a steady light, in the temples of his mortality through all the dark hours of his time: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 31823
Author: Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
Release Date: Mar 29, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English